Title: You Are Happy (Deuteronomy 33:26-29)
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Let's take the time to test happiness and unhappiness first. Let me tell you 10 things. Let's count how many apply to me. "① I love you. ② I'm sorry. ③ Thank you. ④ It's okay. ⑤ Be strong. ⑥ I'll pray for you. ⑦ You can do it. ⑧ It will be fine. ⑨ It can be. ⑩ I'm happy to have met you." People who use these words frequently are people with a high happiness index.
I'm going to tell you another 10, so please each count how many words you use frequently. "① I'm going to die. ② It's your fault. ③ I don't want to see it. ④ It's okay. ⑤ I get nervous. ⑥ Nothing happens. ⑦ It's okay if I don't see it. ⑩ What did I do wrong?" People who use these words a lot or frequently are people with low happiness index. Someone who thinks you are unhappy.
In a few days, all schools will have an entrance ceremony. All entrance ceremonies are meaningful, but kindergarten or elementary school entrance ceremonies that enter school for the first time are meaningful. However, there is a difference between the old entrance ceremony and the current entrance ceremony. In the old days, at the entrance ceremony, all students hung a towel on their chest called a nose towel, but these days there is no such thing. It's nonsense, but in the old days, mothers gave me a nose towel and said, "Hey, hey, hey, I know." I believe you do.
When words prosper, life prospers, the nation prospers, the nation prospers, and the church prosper. I pray in the name of the Lord that I can open my mouth and speak of happiness.
In an article by [William Cheddar], a man accidentally picked up a five-dollar bill on the street as a boy. How would you feel if you picked up a five-dollar bill as a child? It was just as good as shimmering. But then this boy became addicted to it and walked around looking down at the street. I've spent my whole life picking things up on the road. So you have to have good experiences at a young age. Often, one exhilarating experience as a child will chase you after it for a lifetime.
He found 29,519 buttons, 54,172 hairpins, and thousands of coins along the way. Picking up such things crippled his physique and made his character stingy, and said that he had never had a chance to see the sky or the greenery, the flowers and birds of the earth, the nature and beauty in his lifetime. He was led a life of scavengers. Do you think this person would have been happy? It would not have been. Many people living in modern times are no different from this boy.
As we have gone through modernization over the years, only natural science can solve the problems of mankind. it is technology It is material', and while conquering nature and developing technology, we pursued it, considering abundance and human convenience as the highest values. So, to some extent, we have become rich and it is true that the world we live in has become much more convenient. Human life is modernized and modernized. However, not all problems in life were ever solved by modernization or modernization.
Rather, another problem arose. So, on the other hand, I came to seek equality and freedom rather than abundance and human convenience. So social scientists came forward to instigate the labor movement, the women's movement, the human rights movement, and the environmental movement. So, to some extent, our society has also been democratized. The destruction of nature has also decreased, and human rights violations and various types of discrimination have been eliminated. But has all of life's problems been solved and you're happy? The problem is that it isn't.
There are more suicides now than in poor times than in uncomfortable times, and in unequal societies, the divorce rate is higher now, and the labor market is more discriminatory and unstable. How high is the ratio of non-regular workers compared to regular workers now? Life is empty, and the problem that humans feel with their skin is getting bigger and bigger. Modern people are suffering from physical and mental diseases. The number of people looking for psychotropic drugs is rapidly increasing, and the consumption of drugs for the neuropsychiatric system is increasing day by day. Some psychiatrists even expressed that the streets of our society are now walking psychiatric hospitals. It's such a dangerous society.
It is said that the office of the future will only need three fingers. A computer, a person, and a dog, a person is needed to feed and water a dog, and a dog is needed to keep humans from accessing the computer. If this continues, the human role will soon be reduced to feeding dogs.
Now, even as the economy grows, employment does not increase. As the economy grows, you can bring in another good, upgraded computer. Such economic growth that is not accompanied by an increase in employment is called "jobless recovery" in technical jargon. Future economic growth does not entail employment. This means that even if the economy grows, not many jobs will be created.
This, in turn, means that our children are deprived of the opportunity to be independent of their parents. Therefore, the loss of children's will to independence is gradually becoming a big problem in society. And that's to say that parents are getting longer and longer to support their children. In the past, it was possible to send students to college, but now it is not. As a result, this leads to the disappearance of sympathy and consideration for others, which leads to a selfish society. So it became a time bomb that explodes with a little touch.
So these days, I don't carelessly touch people. They are time bombs, not people. You have to deal with it gently. You never know when or how it will change. Did you know?
I profess I prophesy. There will be many unusual accidents in the future. Abnormal thinking refers to "an accident committed by an individual or group with malicious intent." The 9/11 terrorist attacks, the British subway terrorism, the Daegu subway disaster, the Afghan hostage incident, the Cho Seung-hee genocide at the Virginia Institute of Technology, and the Sungnyemun arson incident are unusual accidents. It's been a week in America and there is a shooting at a school. Last week, there were five school shootings per week.
The modern society is a dangerous society with the possibility of such disasters that do not know when they will happen.
So people are anxious. It is because of anxiety that superstitions and nonsensical myths still prevail among people and do not go away. According to the statistics of the Chinese fire authorities during the one-week holiday of the Lunar New Year holiday, there were over 10,000 fires caused by firecrackers. In addition, 59 people lost their lives, the number of injured people is too many to figure out, and property damage was over 3 billion won. It is said that more than 1,000 tons of firecrackers were thrown out in Beijing alone. However, the fact is that they are doing so because of the belief that this fireworks display can drive away evil spirits and bring blessings.
After receiving a doctorate from the best school, I am the principal and president, and I pass exams at the opening ceremony, buy a cutting-edge airplane and pass the exam, and a doctor opens a hospital and passes the exam during the opening ceremony.
These superstitious acts and rites are nothing more than expelling small demons and inviting large demons. It's like taking out a stone from the bottom and blocking the top hole. Eventually, it will collapse.
Why? We know the cause. This is because natural science, which claimed to be a god for human abundance, cannot guarantee human happiness. Money cannot solve all human problems, and economics cannot solve all problems. And this is because social science, which claims to be a god for human rights, freedom, order and distribution, cannot guarantee human happiness. In fact, natural and social sciences have contributed many things to mankind. This needs to evolve a lot in the future. However, there is something missing from these things. There is something that has been ignored. What is that? soul is gone. I was blown away. It ignores the soul, the soul that even the ancients knew. They do not know that the breath that God breathed into mankind when he created them, and thus became a living soul. All of these solutions are, after all, savage solutions. They looked only to the earth, not to God.
Do you know which words were prominently used in newspapers or on the Internet in February 2008? "Soulless" are words with the modifier attached to them. Soulless expert, soulless team, soulless match, soulless civil servant, soulless public relations office, soulless country, soulless bureaucracy, soulless nation, soulless pay, soulless life, soulless beauty, soulless body, soulless Children, soulless media, soulless love, soulless education, soulless machine, soulless craftsmanship, etc.
However, everything that has been modified as soulless was talking about things that are not good, things that are not normal, things that should be improved and changed. However, it is true that most of the people who use this term are not religious or Christian.
Everyone! Soulless skills, soulless kindness, soulless beauty, soulless dolls, there is no real happiness from these things. The feeling that something is missing, the feeling of emptiness cannot be erased. After all, there is no happiness in possession without a soul. Therefore, the idea of trying to do something by selling your soul is a foreshadowing of unhappiness in the end. You must have a soul. You must acknowledge God, believe in God, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ whom He sent, and receive and enjoy salvation every day.
A country with a high happiness index, a nation with a high happiness index, and a person with a high happiness index are a country with a soul, a nation with a soul, and a person with a soul. They were not happy because the conditions were good. The circumstances of life have never been good. What does it mean to have a soul? that there is faith. It means relying on God. I believe that finding God is happiness. Amen?
A fish cannot live without water, a tree cannot live without land, and a human cannot be happy apart from God. What human beings who have departed from God struggle to gain is momentary pleasure. Humans apart from God have momentary pleasures, but no happiness.
A couple is unhappy not because they don't have money, not because they don't have something, or because they are not healthy. because I don't believe it. because I doubt it. Without faith, you will be unhappy.
In today's text, Moses blessed for the people of Israel and declared, "Blessed are you, O Israel." Israel is Jacob's new name. This is the new name God gave us when we truly depend on and hold on to God, hope only for God's blessings, hold on to God, wrestle, and do not let go. We, who have become children of God in Jesus Christ, are also happy. He said, “Blessed are you, Israel.”
When [George Gallup], an American psychologist and founder of statistical opinion polls, took a poll asking "Who is the happiest?", surprisingly, the answer "The happiest person is the one who has experienced the living God" ranked first. . If you look at people of great faith in the Bible, there is always a God who helps them. If we acknowledge the God who helps and the God who saves, we become happy.
Saints! May you declare that you are happy. And I hope you decide to live happily ever after. It will be as declared. It will be what you decide to do.